Violence in Society

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with...

In Australia violence against women is a silent epidemic. By the age of 15 almost 20% of women have experienced sexual violence and more than one i...

Police officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because thats ...

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beg...

Hostis humani generis, meaning enemy of humankind, is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturer...

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence ar...

The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's leading mafia exper...

Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán Andino Welcome to a country that h...

A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflic...